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Halstead metric

Reports the methods with high Halstead Complexity metric.

See Halstead measure (wikipedia.org) for details.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PhpHalsteadMetricInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | PHP | Refactoring opportunities

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Halstead metric inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Halstead metric limit

Default value:

50

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PhpHalsteadMetricInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

PhpStorm 2025.2, Qodana for PHP 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025